Oil bath foe wheel eims



(No Model) 2 -SheetsShet '1. J. M.'GOFF. OIL BATH FOR WHEEL RIMS.

No. 595,808. Patented Dec. 21,1897.

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No. 595,808. I Patented Dec. 21,1897,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH MARSHALL GOFF, OF RUSTON, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO J.MACK SMITH, OF SAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 595,808, dated December21, 1897.

Application filed December 31, 1896. Serial No. 617,626. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH MARSHALL GOFF, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Ruston, in the parish of Lincoln and State ofLouisiana, have invented a new and useful Oil-Bath for Wheel-Rims, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an oil-bath for treating Wooden wheel-rims, tosaturate the material, and thus exclude moisture to prevent swelling andcontraction due to atmospheric changes; and the objects in View are toprovide a simple and efficienct construction and arrangement of partswhereby the apparatus is adapted to support Wheels of different kindsand sizes at the proper height for the immersion of their rims in thebath, to provide means for varying the position of the bath laterallywith relation to the support or standard to suit wheels having hubs ofdifferent lengths and also Wheels which are dished to different extents,and to provide efficient means for attaching the wheel to the supportingdevices irrespective of the diameter of the bore of its hubs and somounting the supporting devices as to enable the wheel to be turned withfacilityto bring all parts of its rim into contact with the contents ofthe bath.

Further objects and advantages of this invention will appear in thefollowing description, and the novel features thereof will beparticularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of an apparatusconstructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a centrallongitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a transverse verticalsection of the same. Fig. 4 is a detail View in perspective of one ofthe members of the expansible hub-seat. Fig. 5 is a vertical transversesection of the hub-seat to show the means for adjusting the membersthereof.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawings. v

The supporting-frame l of the apparatus embodying my invention isprovided with horizontal parallel guides 2, upon which is seated fortransverse adjustment the furnace 3, provided at one end with afuel-door 4 and at the other end with a smoke stack or fine 5. Thefurnace is provided with depending clips or ears 6, which straddle theguides 2, whereby the furnace is adapted to be adjusted toward and fromthe plane of the upright portion 7 of the supporting-frame and is heldfrom longitudinal movement.

Mounted in suitable guides 8 in the upright portion of thesupporting-frame is a standard 9, provided with a plurality ofopeningsor perforations 10 for engagement by a securing device, such as a pin11, fitted in registering perforations 12 at opposite sides of the upperguide 8. This standard is provided with hori- 'zontally-alined bearings13, (one of which is formed in a bracket or lateral extension 14,) andin the bearings is mounted a spindle 15, adapted to be fitted with anoperating-crank 16. The spindle at one end carries an expansible andcontractible hub-seat consisting of relatively-adj ustable members 17 ofwhich their inner ends are arranged, upon opposite sides of an extension18 of the spindle, said extension carrying right and left threaded ad- 75 j usting-screws 19. These adjusting-screws are swiveled, as by aset-screw 20, in the extension 18, engaging an annular groove 21 in eachof the adjusting-screws, and the oppositely-threaded portions thereof,which are arranged upon opposite sides of the plane of the extension,respectively, engage the hubseat members 17, as clearly shown in Fig. 5.These adjusting-screws are preferably provided at their upperextremities with wrenchseats 22 for engagement by a wrench-head 23 onthe extremity of the crank 16, the shank of the latter being removablyfitted in a transverse opening 24. in the end of the spindle 15.

The body portions of the wrench-seat memo bers may be of any desiredcontour, but are preferably formed with reduced portions 25, suitable tofit within the bore of a buggy or light vehicle wheel, and are alsoprovided at the inner end of this reduced portion with a 9 5 pluralityof offsets 26, adapted to engage the inner portions of the bores ofwagon or heavy vehicle wheels; and it will be seen that when the hub isarranged upon the seat the latter may be expanded to snugly fit the boreof the hub by turning the adj usting-scre'ws in the manner aboveindicated.

The furnace is provided in its top with a longitudinal opening in whichis removably fitted an oil trough or receptable 27, flanged laterally atits upper edge, as shown at 28, to rest upon the exterior surface of thetop of the furnace, and also flanged upwardly, as shown at :29, to forma seat for the lower hoodsection 30. The hood, of which the portion 30forms the lower section, is constructed of detachable members tofacilitate the introduction of a wheel, and the upper edge of the lowermember 30 is flanged to provide a seat 31 for the upper member 32,whereby accidental displacement or disarrangement of the 1 parts isprevented. The outer walls of the hood sections or members are offset,as shown clearly at 30 and 32, to form a receptacle for the outer end ofthe hub, and opposite this offset, which is preferably elongatedvertically, the sections or members are slotted, j as shown at 33, toreceive the hub-seat, the

elongation of the offset and opening being designed to allow verticaladjustment of the supporting devices to suit the diameter of the wheelwhich is arranged in the apparatus.

The upright flange 29 of the oil-trough, in addition to forming asuitable seat for the bottom of the lower hood-section, is also designedto prevent the escape of oil when splashed above the plane of the top ofthe furnace, and

thus avoid waste due to leakage.

From the above description it will be seen f that the oil trough orreceptacle is adjustable extent into the contents of the receptacle.

In addition to excluding dust from the interior of the oil trough or'receptacle and protecting the wheel during the operation fromaccumulations of dust the hood performs the function of confining theheat around the wheel and thus raising the temperature thereof to asufficient degree to aid the oil in penetrating the pores of thematerial, and

thus enabling the operation to be efficiently i accomplished. that themembers of the apparatus, including the members of the hood and the oiltrough or receptacle, are detachable from the fur- It will be seen,furthermore, 7

nace, and I have also shown a furnace provided with a hinged flue 5,normally held in operatlve position by means of a fastening device 34and which when lowered combines with the fuel-door at the opposite endofthe furnace to give access to all parts of the interior thereof for thepurpose of cleaning'the same. i

It will be seen that a furtheradvantage of the hood resides in the factthat it confines the vapors of the oil, and thus induces the saturationof the spokes and hub, as well as the rim of the wheel. In other words,it enables the entire wheel to be treated to exclude moisture.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details ofconstruction may be resorted to Without departing from the spirit orsacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. In an apparatus of theclass described, the combination with a heating device, an oil trough orreceptacle and wheel-supportin g devices, of a hood adapted to receiveand inclose a wheel during the immersion of its rim in the contents ofthe trough or receptacle, substantially as specified.

2. In an apparatus of the class described, the combination with aheating device, an oil trough or receptacle and wheel-supportingdevices, 'of a hood removably seated in the top of said trough orreceptacle and adapted to receive and inclosea wheel, substantially asspecified.

3. In an apparatus of the class described, the combination with aheating device, an oil trough or receptacle and wheel-supportingdevices, of a sectional hood divided upon adiametrical line and seatedupon the trough or receptacle to receiveand inclose a wheel during theimmersion of the rim thereof in the troughorreceptacle,substantiallyasspecified.

4. In an apparatus of the class described, the combination of a heatingdevice, an oil trough or receptacle provided at its top with a seathaving an upright exterior wall or flange, wheel-supporting devices, anda hood removably fitted in the seat at the top of the trough orreceptacle with its lower edge in closed by said upstanding wall orflange, to prevent the escape of liquid by splashing through the jointbetween the hood and the trough, substantially as specified.

. 5. In an apparatus of the class described, the combination with astationary supporting-frame and means for mounting a wheel thereon, of aheating device, an oil trough or receptacle, a hood carried by thetrough to inclose the wheel and means for simultaneously adjusting thetrough and hood laterally with relation to the wheel-supportin gdevices, substantially as specified.

6. In an apparatus of the class described, the combination with astationary supporting-frame having a standard and a hub-seat, of afurnace carrying an oil trough or receptacle an da wheel-inclosinghoodand mounted upon the supporting-frame for adjustment toward and from theplane of said standard parallel with the hub-seat, substantially asspecified.

7. In an apparatus of the class described, the combination of asupporting-frame having horizontal parallel guides,a standardsupport-ing a hub-seat, and a furnace carrying an'oil trough orreceptacle and provided with clips or ears engaging said guides andadapted to be moved thereon to vary the position of the furnace withrelation to the standard, substantially as specified.

8. In an apparatus of the class described, the combination with asupporting-frame and an oil trough or receptacle, of a spindle, anexpansible and contractible hub-seat carried by the spindle, and meansfor adjusting the hub-seat to fit hubs having bores of differentdiameters, substantially as specified.

9. In an apparatus of the class described, the combination Withasupporting-frame and an oil trough or receptacle, of a spindle, and asectional hub-seat carried by the spindle and having adjusting devicesto vary the relative positions of its sections to fit hubs having boresof different diameters, substantially as specified.

10. In an apparatus of the class described, the combination With asupporting-frame and an oil trough or receptacle, of a spindle, a

. sectional hub-seat having opposite members adapted to be adjustedtoward and from a common intermediate point, and right and left threadedadjusting-screws swiveled in the spindle and engaging the hub-seatsections respectively at opposite sides of the plane of the spindle,whereby the relative positions of said sections may be varied to fithubs having bores of different diameters, substantially as specified.

11. In an apparatus of the class described, the combination with asupporting-frame and an oil trough or receptacle, :of a standard mountedfor vertical adjustment upon the supporting-frame, a spindle mounted forrotation upon the standard, a sectional hubseat carried by the spindleand including right and left threaded adjusting-screws engaging thehub-seat sections and adapted to be turned to vary the relativepositionsof said sections, said adjusting-screws being provided Withwrench-seats, and a crank removably engaged With said spindle andprovided with a terminal Wrench-head, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

JOSEPH MARSHALL GOFF.

lrVitnesses:

' E. HOWARD, S. M. LEWIS.

